To raise awareness of the extensive cybersecurity dangers posed by shortened URLs, a college student studying computer science has created his own URL shortening service that doubles as a weapon for ...

URL shorteners have become a ubiquitous presence on the web, largely due to the rise of Twitter. Tinyurl, Bit.ly and the like have come along to make those ugly long URLs look nice and neat in your ...

The long-running clock on Google's URL shortener goo.gl finally has a death date: Aug. 25, 2025. That's when links that were shortened using the defunct service will no longer be accessible, according ...

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Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links. The service allows users to take any link and transform it into a shorter goo.gl ...

Google has given the Google URL Shortener service its own website over at goo.gl. The search giant says it launched the site because users were asking for a direct way to use the service. Google wants ...

Maybe it started as a joke, “What the world needs is another URL shortening service!” said as though we didn’t have enough already. Then, someone at Google heard the joke, took it seriously, committed ...

Everyone is getting into the URL shortening game these days. Google, YouTube, and Facebook are just a few joining the likes of the established players such as Bit.ly. And now Microsoft is jumping in.